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Besides being one of the most popular writers covering the Tour de France every year, Martin Dugard is an award winning author whose books include Chasing Lance, a behind the scenes look at the Tour de France, The Last Voyage of Columbus, Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone and Surviving the Toughest Race on Earth, a first person-chronicle of adventure racing’s early history. Marty's weekly musings can be found here, exclusively online.

Martin Dugard's new book is The Training Ground, due in stores May 14. His website is www.martindugard.com.

Written by: Martin Dugard
Posted: Monday, 18 August 2008

I'm up in Mammoth, CA with my cross-country team, which longtime reader will know as sort of a hallowed pilgrimage. Long before I became a coach I would run the trails here, laying out the places I would run and the workouts I would lead when I got myself a team. And long before that, I was wondering how it would be to coach.

Written by: Martin Dugard
Posted: Monday, 11 August 2008

Mark Spitz is a wuss. Not that Michael Phelps thinks such a thought, but the constant comparisons between him and Spitz must get tiresome. On the one hand you have Phelps, perhaps the most complete swimmer in history. On the other you have Spitz, a phenom in his own right, but whose accomplishment of seven gold medals in a single Olympic Games took place almost forty years ago. Forty!

Written by: Martin Dugard
Posted: Monday, 21 July 2008
I like to think that I am a fairly virile fellow. My definition of toughness is a fairly rigid code, one involving pain, suffering, perseverance and a certain amount of deprivation (all immediately followed by some level of reward, for what is pain and suffering if not the slice of hell we must endure to experience Heaven?).

Written by: Martin Dugard
Posted: Monday, 07 July 2008

In watching the Track and Field Olympic Trials this past week, I was constantly struck by the inordinate amount of attention dedicated to the sprint events. Tyson Gay's cramp in the 200 received more air time than the Men's 10,000 meter final, Alyson Felix's desperate desire to qualify in the 200 after failing in the 100 was treated as a national emergency, and NBC just couldn't get enough of those sprint heats, showing every last one of them ad infinitum.

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